Augustine University 2025/2026 Session Admission forms are on sales - Price: $30500

Augustine University 2025/2026 Session Admission forms are on sales.Contact the admin of the school DR.Mrs Faith Balogun on 07038184865 for purchase of the form and how to register on-line. The general public is hereby informed that application forms for admission into the degree Programme of Augustine University is now available on-line for the 2025/2026 academic session. NURSING ADMISSION FORMS, PRE-DEGREE ADMISSION FORMS, JUPEB APPLICATION FORMS ,INTER SCHOOL TRANSFER FORM,DIRECT ENTRY FORMS,MASTERS AND PHD FORMS,& PART-TIME FORMS are out and on sales in the school premises. Call the School Admin.DR.Mrs Faith Balogun on 07038184865 for more details on how to apply and register online. The School Authority requires all candidates applying for admission into any of its Undergraduate courses to possess Five (5) O’ Level Credit Level Passes at not more than two (2) sittings to include English Language and Mathematics and three (3) other subjects relevant to course.

Augustine University, Ilara also known as AUI is a private Catholic-owned University located in Ilara, a town in Epe local government area of Lagos State Southwestern Nigeria.[2] The University which was approved on 25 February 2015 by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the National Universities Commission offers courses at undergraduate and post graduate levels.[3]

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.[4][5][9] It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.[10][11][12][13] The church consists of 24 sui iuris churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies around the world.[14] The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church.[15] The Diocese of Rome, known as the Holy See, is the central governing authority of the church. The administrative body of the Holy See, the Roman Curia, has its principal offices in Vatican City, which is a small, independent city-state and enclave within the city of Rome, of which the pope is head of state and absolute elective monarch.

The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church founded by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission,[16][17][note 1] that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles, and that the pope is the successor to Saint Peter, upon whom primacy was conferred by Jesus Christ.[20] It maintains that it practises the original Christian faith taught by the apostles, preserving the faith infallibly through scripture and sacred tradition as authentically interpreted through the magisterium of the church.[21] The Roman Rite and others of the Latin Church, the Eastern Catholic liturgies, and institutes such as mendicant orders, enclosed monastic orders and third orders reflect a variety of theological and spiritual emphases in the church.[22][23]

Of its seven sacraments, the Eucharist is the principal one, celebrated liturgically in the Mass.[24] The church teaches that through consecration by a priest, the sacrificial bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ. The Virgin Mary is venerated as the Perpetual Virgin, Mother of God, and Queen of Heaven; she is honoured in dogmas and devotions.[25] Catholic social teaching emphasizes voluntary support for the sick, the poor, and the afflicted through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The Catholic Church operates tens of thousands of Catholic schools, universities and colleges, hospitals, and orphanages around the world, and is the largest non-government provider of education and health care in the world.[26] Among its other social services are numerous charitable and humanitarian organizations.

The Catholic Church has profoundly influenced Western philosophy, culture, art, literature, music, law,[27] and science.[13] Catholics live all over the world through missions, immigration, diaspora, and conversions. Since the 20th century, the majority have resided in the Global South, partially due to secularization in Europe and North America. The Catholic Church shared communion with the Eastern Orthodox Church until the East–West Schism in 1054, disputing particularly the authority of the pope. Before the Council of Ephesus in AD 431, the Church of the East also shared in this communion, as did the Oriental Orthodox Churches before the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451; all separated primarily over differences in Christology. The Eastern Catholic Churches, which have a combined membership of approximately 18 million, represent a body of Eastern Christians who returned or remained in communion with the pope during or following these schisms for a variety of historical circumstances. In the 16th century, the Reformation led to the formation of separate, Protestant groups. From the late 20th century, the Catholic Church has been criticized for its teachings on sexuality, its doctrine against ordaining women, and its handling of sexual abuse cases involving clergy.
Name
Further information: Catholic (term) and Roman Catholic (term)
The first use of the term "Catholic Church", meaning "universal church", was by the church father Saint Ignatius of Antioch in his Letter to the Smyrnaeans in c. 110 AD.[28] Ignatius of Antioch also is credited with the first recorded use of the term Christianity ten years earlier, in c. 100 AD.[29] He died in Rome, with his relics located in San Clemente al Laterano.

olic, with that description also denominating those in communion with the Holy See after the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, when those who ceased to be in communion became known as Protestants.[35][36]

While the Roman Church has been used to describe the pope's Diocese of Rome since the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and into the Early Middle Ages (6th–10th century), Roman Catholic Church has been applied to the whole church in the English language since the Protestant Reformation in the late 16th century.[37] Further, some will refer to the Latin Church as Roman Catholic in distinction from the Eastern Catholic churches.[38] "Roman Catholic" has occasionally appeared also in documents produced both by the Holy See,[note 3] and notably used by certain national episcopal conferences and local dioceses.[note 4]

The name Catholic Church for the whole church is used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1990) and the Code of Canon Law (1983). "Catholic Church" is also used in the documents of the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965),[39] the First Vatican Council (1869–1870),[40] the Council of Trent (1545–1563),[41] and numerous other official documents.[42][43]
History
Main article: History of the Catholic Church
For a chronological guide, see Timeline